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Old 19 Mar 2015
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My wife and I are new members to HU.
Thanks Stubdetoe for the tip on Air Canada. My wife and I have been planing a trip to New Zealand for the past year and I have dropped a line to Patricia this morning to see if they offer this from Vancouver to New Zealand.I'll post her response.
Depends on where Air Canada fly their wide bodied jets too...

Web interface Where we fly at Air Canada Cargo - aircanadacargo.com

Nothing to New Zealand. Hire/buy a bike there?
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...Where we fly at Air Canada Cargo - Nothing to New Zealand.
Air Canada does have direct wide-body service between Vancouver and Sydney, Australia. I'm sure that by now, you must have a bridge somewhere between Australia and New Zealand... heck, it's been over 200 years since those two countries got colonized.
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I'm sure that by now, you must have a bridge somewhere between Australia and New Zealand... heck, it's been over 200 years since those two countries got colonized.
Where is the bridge from Scotland to Europe?
Or Italy to Africa .. etc?

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There's a tunnel to Britain... Unless you own a bloody train it's ****ing useless!!!
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Not applicable for Europe to North America....
This is the answer I got from Air Canada Cargo today on the inquiry for an offer from Europe to North America:
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Good day Claudio,

Thank you for your interest in our Bike promotion.

Unfortunately, The Fly your Bike promotion only applies for reservations originating from North America at the present time. I'm including our Promotion package anyway for your information in case you may want to use our services in North America.

Best Regards,

Serge
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That's very unfortunate... will have to look around for other options.


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Funny that as last week they sent me an email showing capital cities they ship to and from europe to canada.....?

Or am I reading what your saying wrong?
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hi everyone!

email AC back and forth and get to the point where price is whit all their charges for the bike approximately 250 kg, (will be weight in prior loading) around 900 cad.

but that DANGEROUS GOODS DECLARATION , which i have been advised to contact james cargo for it, will cost 400 pounds. that was quick quote from the James Cargo guy via phone, 3 hours ago..

and they advise me to fly day later to give them enough time to clear the bike, which is additional cost as bike will stay for a day at the depo, so all together doesn't relay look as a good deal.

flights whit Air Canada are couple hundreds pounds different than skyscanner cheapest, so no much of wining there either...

i know that we can't go free over the pond, but those deals are always kinda more expensive and more hustle than strait to shipping companies...

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Im currently unable to give the company name but if you r willing to go to the iom tt they have great rate to nz , a few more than from oz
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Had to change my destination from Spain to Frankfurt Germany to make this offer work, but is well worth it. Processing DG paperwork now and will book flight as soon as I get copy of that. Then it is Morocco here I come. One for the guy that posted this info. Had planned on storing bike somewhere in Europe but at this price if I could book round trip it is worth considering.
We all need to make sure to let Air Canada know we appreciate the good rates so they might continue and expand offerings.
Just wanted to let all know the good rates are continuing, you just can not be too picky about where you fly in to.
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Any experience / knowledge about shipping Denver CO to Toronto or Montreal? I intend to ride the Canadian Maritimes but sure do not want to ride across the US of Flatonia from here to there first.

I've been talking to trucking companies but coordinating their schedule and getting my air ticket is a huge hassle...

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Any experience / knowledge about shipping Denver CO to Toronto or Montreal? I intend to ride the Canadian Maritimes but sure do not want to ride across the US of Flatonia from here to there first.

I've been talking to trucking companies but coordinating their schedule and getting my air ticket is a huge hassle...

z

I am in the auto shipping business in the USA. i could probably get a carrier to bring your bike to my place in NY for reasonable (no commission to me for HU members) I'd hold it till you flew to NYC and you could ride to the Maritimes from NYC. I rode to the HU meet in Nova Scotia last year and all the roads were curvy and interesting.

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Air Canada discounted shipping to South America has been discontinued!

I just had an email from Russ at Air Canada saying that "due to unforeseen customs and logistics demands the ship your bike program has been discontinued to South American destinations." They will ship at their non-discounted rate which was quoted at about $2,200 plus the cost of a dangerous goods certificate.

I guess the good news is they will still ship to SA...

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update: Keep waiting.....
Just a head up. Call Air-Canada about the Motorcycle shipping to Europe. Stated they have not heard anything yet. Hopefully they might know more in February.
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update,
Just another update on the Air Canada deal.
Spoke with a representative with the Cargo department. He stated that they defiantly are going to be offering the transatlantic motorcycle shipping deal again this year. But, was uncertain when Air Canada would advertise it.
I’m watching closely, will update you if anything new comes up.
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I just called Air Canada (15 Feb) and they were uninterested in working any kind of deal before the "season" starts. They did not know if the deal was going to happen this year. Unfortunately for me, I need to ship my bike the first week of March and so far the quote was $1600.
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